Wednesday, 3 June 2009

Open Europe, the pro-EU think tank, has published a league table of MEPs based on their voting record for openness and transparency in the EU Parliament. Despite refusing to vote on some policy areas and refusing to vote for measures that will give a superficial veneer of accountability in return for even more power, UKIP MEPs still performed very well.

The list is interesting in that it gives an insight into the performance of the eurofederalist parties but from UKIPs point of view it is flawed. Had UKIP MEPs voted for reforms to the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) rather than calling for its abolition and abstaining, voted on the EU's fraudulent 2007 accounts rather than abstaining in protest and voted on European Police College's fraudulent 2007 accounts intead of abstaining in protest, they would have dominated the top of the list.

Open Europe's research doesn't reflect the fact that UKIP is the only party that will truly protect UK citizens from EU fraud and corruption by pulling us out of the EU completely, rather than tinkering round the edges.

The European Empire is corrupt, anti-democratic and unreformable. The eurofederalist LibLabCon, Greens and Libertas all say they will reform the EU and the Tories and Libertas even claim that they will repatriate powers from the EU even though any repatriation of powers requires a unanimous vote of all EU member states.

About the author:Stuart Parr is a UKIP parish councillor for the Brookside ward of Stirchley & Brookside Parish Council in Telford & Wrekin and the founder and administrator of Bloggers4UKIP.Stuart writes a personal blog Wonko's World and tweets as @wonkotsane.

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What a shame this election has been dominated by westminster issues. It'd have been nice to talk about the EU so the public know what's been done in their name. From Monday 8th June, UKIP should launch its general election campaign and point out to the British people how the EU really affects their lives.